Leaders & Notable People
epub |eng | 2013-05-13 | Author:Victor Davis Hanson [Hanson, Victor Davis]

On the Brink (December 1950–January 1951) On Christmas Day 1950, six months after the North Korean invasion of the south, Matthew Ridgway landed in Japan. In just half a year, ...
( Category: Military Policy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-11-03 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

There was an unusual condition of the weather that materially affected the life and nature of the Thames in previous centuries. The river had a propensity to freeze at the ...
( Category: Political March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Thomas B. Costain [Costain, Thomas B.]

3 During the last visit he paid to England before becoming King, Richard had been in the offices of the chancellery; briefly, because of his dislike for his bastard brother ...
( Category: Royalty March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-25 | Author:Philip Ziegler [Philip Ziegler]

He claimed that this figure had been confirmed by his study of the Charters of King Edward III. Camden claimed to have seen the same inscription but, in his recollection, ...
( Category: Infectious Disease March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-03 | Author:Nancy Rubin Stuart [Stuart, Nancy Rubin]

Hopes for a son’s tales about Yorktown for another generation of the Washingtons were crushed when George and Martha’s son, Jackie, died on November 5 from “putrid fever.” Struck by ...
( Category: American Revolution March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Maraniss

In a survey of college admissions officers, Punahou was ranked among the ten best secondary schools in the nation. Mrs. Lucille Finlayson was reminded of that status almost every day ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-23 | Author:James Bradley [BRADLEY, JAMES]

* * * IN 1873, EMULATING COMMODORE PERRY’S mission, Japanese diplomats sailed west in an American-made warship across the Yellow Sea to open uncivilized Korea to Western ways. They brought ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | | Author:Christopher Hitchens [Hitchens, Christopher]

It is, from Kissinger's own record and recollection, as well as from the record of the subsequent official inquiry, quite easy to demonstrate that he did have advance knowledge of ...
( Category: History & Theory March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Steven F. Hayward [Hayward, Steven F.]

JFK, Supply-Sider One of the ironies of Kennedy becoming the posthumous liberal hero is that many liberals distrusted him both as a candidate and while he was president, and Kennedy ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Henry Kissinger

CHAPTER TWENTY Negotiating with the Communists: Adenauer, Churchill, and Eisenhower In March 1952, before the Korean War had ended, Stalin made a diplomatic overture to settle the Cold War for ...
( Category: Diplomacy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Jim McEnery & Bill Sloan [McEnery, Jim & Sloan, Bill]

THE CRAB AND COCONUT WARS WHEN WE EMBARKED from Gloucester on May 5, most of us in K/3/5 were pretty sure we were on our way back to Camp Balcombe ...
( Category: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Dugard, Martin & O'Reilly, Bill [Dugard, Martin]

Booth tosses a dollar onto the bar and walks downstairs to the Grover’s manager’s office. It’s empty. Sitting at the desk, Booth removes paper and an envelope from the pigeonholes. ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-08 | Author:Drew Gilpin Faust [Faust, Drew Gilpin]

“It was my Mother’s customs,” “My gentle Mother dear” “I was my Mother’s darling,” for, I loved my lager beer. “Kiss me good-night, Mother,” and bring me a Bourbon plain— ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-07-16 | Author:Ulysses S. Grant [Grant, Ulysses S.]

CHAPTER FORTY FOUR BATTLE OF CHATTANOOGA — A GALLANT CHARGE — COMPLETE ROUT OF THE ENEMY — PURSUIT OF THE CONFEDERATES — GENERAL BRAGG — REMARKS ON CHATTANOOGA AT TWELVE ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Adam Goodheart [Goodheart, Adam]

Afterward, in a letter to a close friend (a black New Yorker named Randolph Ryer), King exulted like a warrior returning from the field of victory. “I pitched into Secession, ...
( Category: American Civil War March 26,2014 )